John Cox

January 22, 2014

UNC Charlotte campus

Human trafficking is modern-day slavery. Do you want to help bring awareness to human trafficking in the community? Please come attend this presentation and learn how you can educate yourself and others on an important issue that is all around us.

–      What is human trafficking?

–      Does it happen here in the U.S. and in Charlotte?

–      Who are the victims?

Presented by: Natalie Thomas, anti-trafficking activist and International Studies major, UNC Charlotte Class of ’13

Brief video & a dialogue with survivors

Monday, April 7

11:00 am – 12:15 pm

Denny Hall, Room 200

UNC Charlotte campus

 April 6-7 marks the 20^th anniversary of the beginning of the Rwandan genocide. In the span of a mere 100 days, some 800,000 Rwandans were methodically hunted down and murdered by Hutu-power extremists—a horrifying reminder that massive crimes against humanity are still possible decades after the Nazi Holocaust.

Sponsored by the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences of the University of North Carolina Charlotte and its Departments of Africana Studies; Global, International & Area Studies & its Center for Holocaust, Genocide & Human Rights Studies; History; and Political Science and Public Administration; and the university’s African Studies Academy and Office of International Programs

Omer Bartov, Distinguished Professor of European History and German Studies at Brown University

Thursday, March 27, 2014 

4:30 pm – 6:15 pm

UNC Charlotte’s Center City Campus in uptown Charlotte

Omer Bartov ranks among one of the leading and most accomplished Holocaust and Genocide Studies scholars. His publications, including seven books and three edited volumes, have been translated in many languages and transformed the field. Omer Bartov is currently completing another major monograph, The Voice of Your Brother’s Blood: Buczacz, Biography of a Town, on which his keynote talk will be based.

Exhibit in Cone Center, North East Lounge until April 3

                         Events (all events on campus):

Monday, March 17

6:00 pm, Cone Center – McKnight Hall / North East Lounge

Opening Reception for exhibition

Lecture: Emily Makas – “Ruined and Rebuilt Landscapes: Memories of the War in Bosnia”

Co-sponsored by the Office of International Programs

Wednesday, March 19

5:00 pm, CHHS room 281

Movie Screening: “Grbavica” with discussion led by Jill Massino

Monday, March 24

5:00 pm, CHHS room 281

Lecture: Dr. Bob Hayden, University of Pittsburgh

“Memories of War in Bosnia: Conflicting Commemorations in a Contested Country.”

Dr. Hayden is an anthropologist of law and politics, and has done extensive work on the reconstruction of states and nations in the former Yugoslavia, following lengthy fieldwork there. Robert Hayden, who directs Pitt’s Center for Russian and East European Studies, is also the principal investigator of “Antagonistic Tolerance: An International & Interdisciplinary Project on Competitive Sharing of Religious Sites.”

Wednesday, March 26

5:00 pm, CHHS room 281

Movie Screening: “Srebrenica: A Cry from the Grave” with discussion led by John Cox

Wednesday, April 2

6:00 pm, Cone Center – McKnight Hall / North East Lounge

Closing Reception: “Celebrating Bosnian-American Culture”

Panel Discussion: “Rebuilding Identities in the Bosnian–American Diaspora”

These events made possible by a generous grant from the UNC Charlotte Chancellor’s Diversity Challenge Fund and the support of UNC Charlotte’s College of Arts and Architecture; the Department of Global, International & Area Studies and its Center for Holocaust, Genocide & Human Rights Studies; the Department of History; and the Bosnian Students Association, as well as the Bosnian-Herzegovinian American Cultural Center (BHACC).